30 seconds for Jan. 18

I've been feeding birds for many years, but this year I don't have any redbirds. Does anybody know what happened to the redbirds?

I have glaucoma and it's a fallacy that marijuana helps. Smoking marijuana does help eye pressure for a while, but after it wears off, eye pressure spikes. Sometimes dangerously high.

I hope they throw the book at the sick guy from Cuyahoga Falls who tried to buy a little girl.

I don't mind public employees getting a raise as long as my pay doesn't go down.

It wasn't too long ago that some of the oil fracking industry truck drivers were caught dumping brine water into our lakes and streams. I wonder if this is the same brine water they are now spraying on the roads?

If I had a crystal ball, I'd guess the Dover Board of Education will not listen to the residents on the survey. The people don't want this.

Thank you so much to the person who turned in my keys at Marshall's at the mall. I really appreciate it. God bless you.

I think it's typical of Byron York to say that jobs are the big issue in the next election. The Republicans have fought every job-creating proposal that Obama has put forth.

If the people of Dennison and Uhrichsville cannot vote on the people appointed to the water board, how can there ever be a change?

To all those poor people crying about the length of time it took to put that killer to death: Do you think he worried about the noise his victim made? He still got off easy.

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